David Shields

Who needs a life preserver when you have weighty tomes like Crime and Punishment? Genre-defying author David Shields uses himself as a case study for readers and writers who seek literary salvation, combining criticism and autobiography in his new book, How Literature Saved My Life.

Ecologically themed art tends to be dull and sanctimonious, but not so in the hands of Wesley Younie. His idylls of environmental paradise lost abound with equal parts whimsy and intelligence. In the ...

Megan Kruse weaves together a three-pronged narrative between Amy, a woman who leaves her Texas home at 19 with a man she barely knows, and her two children, who are caught in the abusive relationship ...